Strong’s
H65Proper name, a place6 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Judges 7:22אָבֵל
And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
- 1 Kings 4:12אָבֵל
Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;
Brown-Driver-Briggs
אָבֵל n.f.
1. meadow (?)
2. n.pr.loc. city in N. Isr.; = א׳ מַיִם
3. אָבֵל הַשִּׁטִּים n.pr.loc. (= acacia-meadow) in lowlands of Moab
4. אָבֵל כְּרָמִים n.pr.loc. (= vineyard-meadow) in Ammon
5. אָבֵל מְחוֹלָה n.pr.loc. (= dance-meadow) Elisha’s birthplace
6. אָבֵל מִצְרַיִם n.pr.loc. (= meadow of Egypt, i.e. fertile as Egypt ?) E. of Jordan
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.